From “Medicine In My Glasses” To Lawn Mower Parenting;

What happens when a heavy week meets a heavier truth about how we raise and teach our kids? We start with real life—crisis calls, clients, IEPs, grad school deadlines, and an internship interview that clashes with a full-time job—and follow the thread to what those pressures reveal about modern parenting, education, and resilience. Along the way, we keep it human with the language we love: country sayings like “medicine in my glasses,” “sternin’ wheel,” and other regional gems that carry family, humor, and place.

Then a jaw-dropping headline shifts the room: a North Carolina mother who vanished on a Kmart run decades ago is found alive and declines contact. We sit with the daughter’s mixed emotions—relief, anger, grief—and ask hard questions about abandonment, autonomy, and the toll of unanswered stories. It’s not about judging strangers; it’s about understanding how unresolved loss shapes the way we show up for each other.

The heart of the episode takes aim at lawnmower parenting—paving the path so kids never trip—and why it backfires. From classroom moments where students try to copy notes after checking out, to districts leaning on credit recovery to boost graduation stats, we unpack how quick fixes weaken real-world readiness. Our take: coach instead of rescue. Let kids email the teacher, make the call, own the deadline, and learn from small failures while it’s still safe to fail. We share practical strategies for parents and educators to set boundaries, build frustration tolerance, and reward initiative over perfection.

We close with a playful etiquette game (you will have opinions), gratitude for the timing that saves busted cars and tight budgets, and a grounded reminder to vote—know your polling place, bring ID, and take someone with you. If you’re a teacher, parent, student, or anyone trying to balance compassion with accountability, this conversation will give you language, laughs, and a plan. Listen now, watch on YouTube, and if it resonates, subscribe, share, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Transcript

Welcome Back & Weekly Recap;

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The refreshingly normal podcast.

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Okay. Five, four, three, two, one, edit. Welcome back, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to the Refreshingly Normal Podcast. Yeah. With my speedy host, Locrisha. Lou. And I am Kefla D Lon. Hair. I gave my government.

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Just let 'em know I ain't running.

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I ain't running for nothing. I ain't got nothing to hide. Ain't nothing up these sleeves.

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Nothing.

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But some illegal guns. Lordy, Lord. All right. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Um we've had a uh Woo! A week. Yeah, had a good week. I mean a week of a week. But podcast-wise, we have had a great uh great response to uh people out there talking about hearing about medicine in glasses. Yeah. Everybody comments.

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Everybody from Foley.

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Not everybody. Miss T is not from Foley.

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One. Just.

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No, it was no, it was some other people that weren't from Foley. And they they said mess.

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Yes, there were other people. However, I still did not hear did not know about that.

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Um, so I I really appreciate everybody for um tuning in to the show, checking out the episodes. Uh, please uh go to YouTube.

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Yeah.

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Um go to YouTube, you'll find the actual video. You'll find the video where you can actually watch us. You know what I mean? So like on Sundays, what what I like to what do I like to do on Sundays when I'm cooking?

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Oh, listen to the music things.

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Yeah, on YouTube.

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On YouTube, yeah. The um little DJing rooms.

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Yeah, so we'll like live DJs. I think apartment life. Um I'll watch that. And um, you know, I'm listening to that while I'm cooking breakfast. So while you're cooking breakfast or whatever you're doing, cooking dinner, turn on the Refreshingly Normal podcast on YouTube. Uh for the most part. I mean, it's family-friendly show.

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Yeah.

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I would say. Every now and then I might slip out a little cuss word. Yeah. I'm not the cusser that I'm normally am. But these chair and cuss. They cuss a lot.

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A lot.

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Oh my God. They cuss a lot. This little girl was just saying the word to me. And I was like, sweetheart, could you please? I'm so sorry. I'm just so comfortable saying it. And she's a little awkward, very awkward girl. Not even gonna say little. Um but she was just throwing that F-bomb around. I was, yeah, they cuss a lot. Um, but anyway, how was your week?

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Whoa, woo, woo.

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Not no woo-woo woo.

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It was or is because the week is still gone.

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You know what? Let me get on my let me get in my therapist section.

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Um, yeah.

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Tell me about your week. What was it?

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Watch out, don't spill my.

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I ain't gonna, I'm not gonna mess up the rest of your week.

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Um, yeah, it's um just a very um busy week. Uh work, had lots of crisis, crises. I think that's the word. To a lot of problems. Yeah, a lot of crises to go and support, because that's also something I do as the crisis person, um, part of a team. So had woo, I think most of my week was that just that.

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Yeah.

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Um, handling those things. Um, so I say woo woo woo. Not that um I didn't like it or hate it. Just you hate to have to go do it. It's heavy. It's heavy. It's just real, yeah. It's just really heavy. And so uh, my little microphone kicked it. Uh-oh. All right, got it. Um, so I had that this week for work, and um, but Thursday was still a very busy day. I I I've been Uber this week for a certain person while they're getting things done to their car.

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Yep.

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And um I know that they would do the same for me, but I've just been going doing that, and Thursday was really busy. Um, went to go do a walkthrough with the school, and um, it was nice because the kids, I love being out with the babies. And so I had a good time with them in the school. And some of them just, I guess I was like, I wonder. Did she just know? She just came and this I just got random hugs. They didn't know me, but I got random hugs.

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Snap pockets is what I call them because elementary school, they right there on that pocket. Yep, that's where she's right on that pocket.

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So I got hugs, and uh one little boy said, ooh, she smells like sweet cookies.

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So why?

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Um, one of my perfumes is called pink sugar, and I layer it with this other kind of vanilla sweet smelling.

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So uh about to beat little boy up. So be nobody smells my cookies.

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Sweet cookies. So, anywho, um, got to do that on Thursday, and then also had a um parent workshop um Thursday night at six. So that was that a very long day.

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No, that's why you make the big books.

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Yep, and then Wednesday, um, although I did some crisis work, I still had two clients um to take care of. And one of them takes a lot of care.

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I need you to keep on with this work though, because you know I'm trying to be this stay-at-home hood.

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Oh my God. Yeah, they take a lot of care. And that's today, excuse me, partner, got to go to a middle school and do a training with them, with some middle schoolers, and this little group, they were very, very insightful. Some of their responses, yeah, some of their responses. I was like, wait, are these middle schoolers or college, high school? Like just their understanding of things and their personal responses to things were just so they they, I guess I would describe, um, had a great amount of emotional intelligence.

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Oh, that's good.

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Yeah, and were very aware of like how to cope and what stress means. And so, anywho, um, that was today with them. I enjoyed them a lot today. And then, of course, I had clients today, so I had two today.

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The work of being touched.

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Um, yeah. So, um, and I got four tomorrow, y'all. Come on now. So, anyways, that was my week. Um, yeah. Just a it was just look at this. I know. It was just um a lot, a lot, a lot. So I am TI'd. As soon as we get done doing this podcast, guess what? I gotta work again. I gotta prep for my little clients tomorrow. So yeah, I gotta get a few things done there. So hopefully it won't take me too long, but I gotta prepare for them.

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Well, I guess I know. Anyway, night gonna end.

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How was your week?

Work Crises, Schools & Clients;

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It was good until now. Oh God, Tyrown. Thought we were gonna cap it off. Well, my week was pretty good, um, productive. I'm almost I got uh two more IEPs left. And they're both seniors. Um it's like, oh well, I gotta do an IEP for a senior at the end of the year. Oh, yeah, I'm not sure. You know, but I understand for some because they some people want to move it, you know. Uh if you're going to a particular school year, college that allows you to carry it over, um, you know, it makes sense. Um, but other than that, I mean, school was school was school. You know, it's going great. Um I'm almost finished. This this is my last week for this one class. I'm taking this ethics in law and ethics in uh the therapeutic practice. So I got one more, well, a few more days for that. And then I take my last two classroom classes. I'm taking uh marriage and family, therapy, and human sexuality. And then I start my internship. But uh speaking of the week, I had an amazing interview with Kennesaw State uh University, uh, their therapy program. Knowing I I knew going in there that it wouldn't fit with my time because they need somebody to they have mandatory meetings on Thursdays from 8 to 12:30. Of course I'm a teacher, so I can't do that every week. And then they close at five and they require the interns to get at least 20 to 25 hours a week. There's no way I can get that. Yeah, you know, getting there at four to five. But I took the interview anyway because I was like, this is my first practicum slash internship interview, and I want to get to practice. And I told them that, you know, I said, Well, this is my schedule. And they said, Well, do you want to even continue? I said, I would love to continue. I said, because who knows if something miraculous happens where y'all now say we need after hours uh care. And, you know, till nine o'clock or till ten, I said, if I interview well enough, you guys will always keep me in the back of your minds. I said, plus, even if you move on to other places, you know, you knew that I knocked this interview out the park, um, you'll, you know, be able to call Keflet and say, hey, we have an opportunity for you. So I did that interview. I mean, I smashed that interview. Smash. Yes, it's it's like it's like when you go in and have a great audition where it's like, this is my role. And if this isn't my role, you know I and I auditioned. You know what I'm saying? So it was like, I you know I interviewed for that spot. And I laid it down. But um, other than that, uh, you know, getting my car, trying to get my my Jeep um fixed, um, you know, stuff like that. Um that was my week. Yeah. So um, let's see, what else? Okay. So on the topic like we were saying about, let's get into it. We were talking about um all my country folks saying about medicine in their glasses. Of course, I have my contacts on today. And the medicine in these is not as strong as the medicine in my glasses. Sure. You know, so I I kind of can't see everything perfect. Contacts are convenience because I put them on when I exercise, I roll the Peloton today. I ain't want to be sweating falling on down my nose. And when I'm meditating or I mean doing yoga and stuff. Um, but the glasses help me to see great. But just saying with the country stuff, uh my cousin, Vince, he brought up, he he mentioned he put faux town in the comment. Yeah. Because we told everybody that if you if you heard of the phrase, uh, these glasses have medicine in them, put faux town in the comment. Faux town stands for Foley, which is my hometown, Alabama. Um and so he said, also, you remember the saying of this particular person down the street from us. So I I said, let me come up, not come up, but try to pull out some of the old sayings that I've heard in the country.

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Okay.

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And if you have any sayings, I know you're gonna say no, that you've heard in Wichita. The craziest one, well, I'll let you tell it if you don't tell it.

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Okay, because I don't even know.

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Um what you brought your brother used to call you, you used to get mad. Oh, Wichita. Yeah. Oh, but don't say it yet. Yeah, we'll get there. Um, but so here we go. So my cousin Vince. Vince um stayed down the road, just like a brother, because I knew him all my life, you know. Um, but my cousin Vince, he said, uh people used to say stuff like, if somebody drove by and you didn't speak to them or something like that, they say, I was having at you and you ain't even wave back. And like, well instead of waving, because, you know, they're Oh, like you're saying, hey. Yeah. But they would say having.

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Okay.

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I was having at you and you ain't even having back at me. So that was one word, haven't. Um, what do you call the round thing that helps you?

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Steering wheel.

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Okay, we back at the crib called it stern and wheel.

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And where'd that come from? Somebody just pronounced it wrong or they just steering and turning. Sterning wheel.

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Sterning wheel.

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Okay.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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You gotta hold that stern wheel.

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And you know how uh our childhood friend um What about don't they also say antsis instead of ants? They say antsis. I said, what is an antsys?

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You see all them ants' over there.

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I was like, what is that word? That is not a real word.

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And that girl from uh New Orleans um that was she played basketball at Bama State. I got on my Bama State, hold on. This is when we went to the tourney, you know. So just saying. Um Bama State basketball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, State. I had to do that again. But anyway, she was from New Orleans, and uh we were in the in the union, and she was we were like, uh, what you gonna do for spring break? She was like, well, at the time, they think the season was over with. Yeah, season was over with. She said, Well, I want to go home, but I got like three tests. I said, Oh, Tesis, huh? So she's from the south, that's the Gulf Coast. Uh, what else did we say? Um, well, not we, but people that horse pillow, a lot of people say horse pillow. Um, they say melison instead of medicine. You hear that a lot, it's it's a lot of people say melison, especially old folks. Um you know, people you you heard off in tween.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um betwixt. Instead of between them two, they say betwixt them two.

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Oh, I didn't hear betwixt. You never heard betwixt?

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Yeah, so it's a like if I say, put this right here betwixt us.

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Mm-mm.

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Yeah. Y'all heard betwixt before. So any other country word that's that I didn't say or old folks saying that I didn't say, uh, drop it in the comment. Drop it in the comment. Kree, what what have y'all said in which talk?

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I mean, I don't know. I know sometimes for us like um, because it's more Midwest, I guess you would say. So instead of saying care, you say cur.

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A cur about you?

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Over her.

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Over her. So y'all from Memphis. What you know about me? Big Jeep.

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I didn't, but uh I have cousins who say it that way.

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Oh yeah.

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Mm-hmm. And and what you were talking about before to make me upset, my brother would call me a witchetitian. And that would make me so mad. I'd be like, quit calling me that.

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Is that what they call y'all though?

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Which you know, which is No, I think he just made that up. And because it has titty in it, Wichititian, all I heard was titty. And that used to make me so infuriated. I used to be like, be about to cry because he would call me that. And I'll try to think of something to call him because he was actually born in Oklahoma.

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Okay.

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In uh Muscogee, he was born. And so Muscogeean don't sound like Wichitdian. So, anyways, that I see.

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You just said Mustogian for your musty self.

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Should I wait?

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Yeah, that's what you could have said something like that, but I don't know.

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I wasn't as clever because I was younger. He's older than six years older than I am.

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I was clever as a young man.

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No, he's just clever because he went to kick Christian school.

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Yes, I did. And I memorized my verses.

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Okay. He also memorized a whole bunch of cuss words. Did they teach that at the Christian school?

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Yes, they did.

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I bet they did.

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Yes, they did. You know, the private school kids be off the chain. Um, all right, any other words? Any other words? None? You good?

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Yeah, I can't, I can't really think of it. I know here when I moved here to um Atlanta and I was at my first school, we used to always, my team, we always got together. And um some one of the ladies said, Um, I'm gonna be there, but I gotta stop by the store and get some tortilla chips. And I started laughing, and I said, She said, What you laughing at? I said, You said tortilla. She said, Ain't that what they call? I said, No, it's called tortilla. But she called it tortilla.

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Tortilla. She thought it was for real.

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Yeah. And then I never knew package store. So when they were saying we got to go to the package store, I was like, Well, why they going to the package store? Yeah. And I didn't know that was the liquor store because we we just call the liquor store.

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But some stores here have Yeah, it says package store.

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But that's when we first moved here. I didn't know like it's called the package store. Because we call the liquor store something.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm. So that was something new I learned in the South.

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My um, some of my when I went to Troy and I met those those guys from like Dalton area, Headland, uh, Enterprise, they used to say bike like instead of back. Oh, bike? Yeah. So oh man, my bike hurt. Y'all gonna kick me in my bike. They used to say that all the time. So um one of my roommates he used to say that Sug. Larry Johnson say, man, my bike so we worked out too hard. Yeah. So all right, let's move on. So um, you ready for Believe It Sister? Believe it, brother. Yeah, because you over there looking like you don't smoke something.

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I ain't smoke nothing.

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You better not. Because them eyes about to go.

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Are they?

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Yes. They don't feel like it. Yeah, and I'm trying to keep the energy up because about three two episodes back, I I I didn't pay take heed to that look.

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And I'm keeping my energy up.

Grad School, IEPs & Internship Hunt;

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That energy was this look. Yeah, keep it just like that the whole time. All right, so I saw this story this week uh online, and um it was interesting. So to say the least, the story is about this mother who went missing in in uh 2001. All right. So she was just recently found alive and well.

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Twenty-five years later.

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Twenty-five years later. Yeah.

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Because and um one day she just went to Kate Mart.

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Yeah, she that was she. Christmas shopping. Yep. So North Carolina mother who went Christmas shopping 24 years ago, disappeared and was found alive. But she said she does not want to be contacted by her family. All right. So the woman, Miss Michelle Hunley Smith, and I'm gonna say her name, has been found alive in the club. She don't care. Right, she don't, but that probably ain't her name. Uh, in an undisclosed part of North Carolina. What if she is an um Ashville where we always go and we saw her? Probably one of our favorite little stores.

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Yep, living her best life without them cheering.

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We could tell the cheer without her.

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And her husband.

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Because he said, I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back. Going to Kmart.

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Yep. So investigators with the Rockington County Sheriff Office confirmed in a news release that that's where she was. So at her request, her current whereabouts will remain undisclosed. The sheriff office said. Her family has been notified that she has been located and informed her and informed them of this request as well. So they was like, look, we found her, but she's not gonna tell y'all where she's at.

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No. And they said the family said, well, let's give her some time.

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Yeah, give her some time.

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Let's give her some time. Listen, she's done with them.

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She's done.

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It's kind of like when they used to do with the story with the man when he goes out to get some milk but never come back.

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I'll be back and go get some milk. I'll go get a pack of cigarettes from the stove.

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And they never come back. My daddy went to get cigarettes and never came back home.

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She went to Kmart. So here it is. So she was 38 years old when she left the Greensboro, Greensboro area home on December the 9th, 2001, to go Christmas shopping at a nearby Kmart, according to the sheriff's office. She was reported missing 22 days later.

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Oh, yeah.

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That's what she was. She was like, I'm gonna get them some time to see if they really care about me.

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22 days later. 22 days later.

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That's what they reported her missing.

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She was like, Well, maybe, maybe she often would go off because 22 days. Days is a long time for nobody to be nervous.

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So I she probably had like in the story it says something about it.

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Yeah. She probably had times where she would go off and they wouldn't know where she is, but she would come back. And then 22 days probably was the longest, and they were like, wait, we might need to worry now.

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So her family last saw her when she left the home in Eden, North Carolina, about 36 miles north of Greensboro. She left around 8:30 to go shopping about 17 miles away in Virginia and was driving a green 1995 Pontiac Transport Van, the family said. So once she was reported missing, December she was reported missing December 31st. Authorities launched an investigation that later included the North Carolina State Bureau investigation, the DEA and the FBI. Her van was never found. Her family said on the Facebook page dedicated, you know, that was searching for her. They had a Facebook page for it, looking for her. All right. So on February 19th, Rockingham County Sheriff's Office of Criminal Investigation received new information regarding her whereabouts. Though they didn't immediately confirm the source or additional details, detectives followed up on the lead and spoke to Hunley Smith the following day. She is now in her 60s. And so in 2018, her daughter pinned a plea for her mother to come forward. Mama, this is Amanda, she started the message. If you see this, please know that I'm not mad at you. And I just want you to know. I just want to know if you're safe. In fact, to be honest, I'd rather find out that you had just left and that you're still alive.

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Well, she is.

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Yep. Boo-boo. And so this is one thing her daughter said. So her daughter said she wants to at least kind of reconnect because she's battling cancer and didn't know how much time she has to live. She also liked posted a picture of her daughter saying, This is your grandbaby. Meet her. All right. But after her mother was found, her daughter took the social media and thanked the public for the support she received. Now, the daughter also said, she said, I'm ecstatic, I'm pissed, I'm heartbroken, I'm all over the map. She said, Will I have a relationship once more with my mom? Honestly, I can't answer that because I don't even know. And in here, in this story, somewhere in here, she was saying she understood. She said, because, oh, here it is. She said, Hunley Smith's daughter said that while her mother needs to be held accountable for leaving the family, part of her understands how she could leave the way she did. Because her daughter, according to the post, is also a runner. So the daughter said she understands why she ran, because I'm a runner too.

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Oh, okay.

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So that to me, I took it that, oh, mama done ran before.

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Oh, okay. You know what I mean?

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Mama said I done had this, but this time y'all ain't gonna look for me for 22 days.

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Okay, then well, if you're normally a runner, I mean they think you're fine. You just are going away somewhere.

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But she's a runner, she's a track star.

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Mm-hmm. But this time she got far. She said she's gone forever.

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Yeah.

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Bye forever.

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Don't don't contact me.

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Don't call me.

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How would you feel?

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If what? My mama ran away.

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Your mama ran away.

Country Sayings And Regional Words;

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I think anybody would feel um abandoned.

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Okay, now tune in to 22 years later. She don't want you to find her.

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Then, I mean, my feelings will be hurt again, but at this point, I'll be like, yo, lost. I mean, what am I gonna do that you don't that? I mean, now we know why you left. You don't want to see us, you don't want to be bothered with us. It'll be hurtful and you'll feel, you know, um, abandoned and not cared about and not important. But I mean, you've been living 20-something years without her. But I guess I just always they maybe thought, maybe they thought some half choice she was dead. Probably did. Maybe they, you know, they didn't know, but to know that she's alive and and she does not want to see you, yeah, that would be just hard.

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It's hurtful, man.

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That would be really hurtful.

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Yeah. I would I would be hurt.

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And I just would want to find her just to cuss out, then I'd be done.

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Yeah, yeah. Just like so, you really thought this was smart? You thought this was smart. You're selfish. How could you be so selfish?

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

You don't believe all that stuff you be talking about.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Because children, children don't ask to be here. You had those children. So children don't ask to be there, but like we said this morning, that is the ultimate uh F them kids um event, yes it is, situation.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

She she she's if you look up F them kids, there she go. She's right there beside us there.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Because she said F them kids. F them kids. She bounced.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Yeah, she does.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

22 years said. It didn't say look, look, look, look, look. Y'all found. Don't tell them where I'm at.

SPEAKER_02 27:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

All right. Just keep this game of hide and seek going on forever.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Yeah. They don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

She wins. Yeah. Hide and seek.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

I wonder if she got a whole new family. Is that wild?

SPEAKER_01 27:12

She probably did.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

And maybe she wants her to find them. She doesn't want them to find her because she has a whole new family, kids, and all of that.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Well, they posted her old looking picture in the um, so somebody probably looked at that picture and be like, that looks like mom.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Yeah, they might.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Unless she done changed everything.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

She probably can in today's time. She probably won the lottery when she went to Kmart, won the lottery and rounds. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

They sell lottery tickets at Kmart?

SPEAKER_01 27:41

No, but on her way, probably went and got her smokes.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Oh, maybe that is what happened. Maybe on her way to Kmart, she stopped, get some gas and cigarettes. One million dollar on the scratch off and was like, if they don't come looking for me, I'm gone. And she left, been living a wonderful life, didn't want them to have her money.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

And she went, that could be.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

So you know what I say to that? It's unbelievable, but believe it.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

Sister.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

She ran on y'all. She's a runner, she's a track star.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

She's shouting.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

She didn't, she didn't listen to Bro Rilla. Because Bro Rilla was talking about how the family's supposed to be there for each other. Because Bro Rilla's mad at Glow Rilla.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

I heard.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

And she was like, you know, she when she said, I deserve that.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

She deserves how much money she wanted? A thousand dollars?

SPEAKER_01 28:37

$2,500.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

I know. I well, BroRilla said she don't even fool with her.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

$2,500. Oh, Bro Rilla. Bro Rilla wanted$25,000.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Bro Rilla needs to go get herself a JOP.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

She's been making money from all them appearances.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Well good. Well good. Now she's good.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

She ain't got, yeah, she's on her own. She's gonna run through that money too. Mm-hmm. Shout out to Bro Real out there. Bro Rilla. Trying to make her her living. Um, all right. So let's play this game.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Oh, what's the game?

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

So the name of the game is okay or okay now. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Or okay now.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Okay now you better stop.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Alright. So for example, um not getting your house or or or or or buying a house and not having it inspected.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Okay now.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Okay now. Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

Well and sometimes that don't even matter because y'all, we got our house inspected.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Yeah, but we ain't know what to look for. So we'll be better next time. Next time it's gonna be a fine-tooth comb up in this thing. I'm gonna be there before they even put the shoes.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

You can't look at the walls, that's the problem. Oh, yeah, now we know.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

And I'm gonna be paying attention and I'm gonna be like, hold up, y'all get ready? Let me look between betwixt them walls. Betwixt. I'm gonna be looking betwixt betwixt them walls.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

Betwixt those walls.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Betwixt those walls. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

All right now.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

All right. Oh, so here we go. I got some got some questions. Some questions. Uh what's that song? Time! Hold on, man. I've been doing everything here. I've been being a producer and uh I only had no producer help.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Well.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

So you gotta just relax. It was almost ready. Alright, here we go, everybody. They patient. We got a good fan base. They love you, they said.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

I know they do. I know y'all do.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Just be Susie. Susie, I don't want to care about you.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Whatever. And I love Susie.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

So, for example, let me give you another one. Um, here we go.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Okay, or okay now. Taking selfies with wild animals while on vacation.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Okay now.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

People do it.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Get a not us though. We don't do that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Mm-mm. Except the ricky the raccoon.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

No, we weren't taking no a you know I what did I I kept saying this. Okay now. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

And you was like, now it's fun. Everything's cool. I just know I don't say everything's cool.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

My bad. It's everything's cool, guys. That's no I don't sound like that either.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Whatever. All right. Um, let's see. Uh I forgot where it was. Okay, here we go. Ignoring clearly posted safety signs because, oh, it'll be quick. Whether it's traffic or anything.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Okay now. I thought of you. I I knew you would say okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

Got places to go. It won't hurt nothing.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

All right, this is what people do here. Going viral for pranks that humiliate humiliate random strangers in public.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

Oh, okay now. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

You reap what you sow. Just know.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

You're gonna get laid out.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

The wrong person.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Um arguing with flight attendants.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

Okay now.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Get your behind kicked off that plane.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

Don't be on a no flight list.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

Yeah, the no y'all won't be on a no flight list.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Hmm. And this is what people gotta stop doing. Posting that they're on a vacation on social media. And when people stuff.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Okay now.

SPEAKER_01 32:49

Okay now. Hey everybody. Welcome to my new apartment in Villa Estates Apartment Heights. Over there, right off of 53rd and 2nd. I'm just saying, listen. Who says that? Okay now. That's for you. When people say what their apartment is and they say what it looks like. I just got this new apartment and they they show you the address and they say, Who show you the address? Don't worry about it, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

You saw that?

SPEAKER_01 33:17

Yes, you see it all the time. People will show you where it's at.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

The exact address they tell you.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

So they tell you where they're staying at. New high-rides apartment in Midtown, right off of Peachtree.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

That's all right, y'all. We're gonna pray for her.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

I'm just saying it's a lot of apartments within that thing.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

That's okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

So they still have to know the apartment number.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

It's okay if you're gonna be able to do that. All right. It's okay if you're parents emailing teachers at 11:47 p.m. demanding an immediate response. Is that okay?

SPEAKER_02 33:52

You can do whatever you want to do, but I'm sleep.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Okay now. Because you ain't getting no demand from your boy.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

Because you can demand all you want at 11 something p.m. But this is asleep and ain't thinking about looking at no email. And I sure, surely do not have a notification on for it to ding for me to respond. So you can do at um anytime after school gets out, and guess when you're gonna get response a response the next day.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, I do that.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

Because as soon as after whatever 4 p.m. hits, the sister's off.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Yeah. And if you on a break, I'm gonna hit you back.

SPEAKER_02 34:36

When break is over.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

I don't care who you are, my principal, anybody. I'm not that whole school burned down. I'll be like, oh, I didn't know. We had a new building today. I didn't know. Yeah. Can you thank you? Okay now. So, alright, here we go. Um, talking on a speakerphone in public.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Oh, we already said that last week. Okay now. Why are you even doing that?

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Yep. And some of them talk full volume. Yes, full volume. All right.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

Letting your phone play videos out loud in a waiting room.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Okay now.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

You should not do that. That's how uh Portia almost got beat up on that flight that time.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

And look what the next one says recline in your airplane seat. I know that she won't recline in her airplane seat, but just saying he was talking about airplane. Recline in your airplane seat all the way back without looking behind you.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Oh, without looking behind you.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

I mean, I think that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

I don't know, because it's they were calling it.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Right, there's only so much room.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

And it shouldn't do anything. I mean, unless you got high, I don't know, unless you're headed.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

I mean, it's it's different if you just do like this. Push it.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

And I don't think you can do that.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

I don't think they go, but I don't ever.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

But other than that, you can't look back and be like, hey, I'm gonna go back.

SPEAKER_02 36:02

No, I ain't gonna tell you. I'm just putting my seat back because if it doesn't, that means I can.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

So that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

Ain't not a problem.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

It's not my problem. Um, showing up to the cookout empty-handed and asking for it to go plate. Oh, okay now.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

My daddy, that's about to say that's my daddy's pet peeves.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

They think it's okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

They think it's okay and it's not. He would get so frustrated when he would spend all that time barbecuing and cooking. Nobody brought anything, had no one take to go place. And he would tell the uh he tell him, put that plate down. Ain't no food going, ain't no food going out this house.

SPEAKER_01 36:43

Ain't no food leaving this house. Put that back.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

And my mama was like, Curtis, he goes, uh uh I don't care. They ain't bring nothing, they ain't taking nothing. And he would, and they used to look at him like they could not believe it. But yeah, that is true. That's what he would do.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

All right, bringing some store-bought potato salad to a family function when auntie already makes it.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Hers must not be good. It ain't good.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

I don't know. What you gonna do? Is that okay or is that okay now?

SPEAKER_02 37:12

I don't say it's okay. Because if somebody brings in store-bought and they know the auntie made it, hers must not be good.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

I'm gonna say okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:21

Because if granular ain't nobody bringing potato salad.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Yeah, no, they're not. Uh-huh. All right. Saying I don't eat that when you go to somebody's.

SPEAKER_02 37:33

That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Because if it look a little suspicious.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

Could you say that as a kid to uh the older folks?

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Yes, no, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

I couldn't. Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 37:45

No, thank you. I would not like any. Because one time when I learned from it, one time I did not say that. And our next door neighbor made me sit and eat the whole thing, and it was gross. And I said, I never will do that again. If I don't like it, I'm gonna say no thank you.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

So how they make you eat it?

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Because she said I she took because she was she kept me after school, and so she had raisin pie.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

And you sure it was raisins and not roaches?

SPEAKER_02 38:17

No, it was raisins, and she asked me, did I want some? And I got it, then I tasted and I was like, ooh. And then she was like, You ask for it, you have to eat it. And so I was a child that it didn't take much to scare me. And uh, so I felt obligated, and that was awful. So I from that moment forth, anybody that would ask me about if I wanted something and it looked kind of like I wasn't sure if it was gonna taste good or not, then I would say no, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

That's your fault because you raisin pie.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

I didn't know I was a little. I was in elementary school.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

You still should know raisin and pie don't go together.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

Well, when you got a greedy spirit, you try things. And I have greedy spirits.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

Hey, I know. Hey, I ain't trying no raisin pie. And I was I was greedy. I was, remember, I gained that weight. Yeah. Well, I had to wear suspenders and how pulled my pants up. Mm-hmm to your titties. Like this. To your tootles.

SPEAKER_02 39:23

Pulling your pants up to your tootles.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

And uh, I didn't eat no raisin pie.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

Well. That lady should be in jail.

SPEAKER_02 39:29

She should be.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

Is she still alive? No. She's an old lady there.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

I don't know. All right, Miss Carroll next door to us.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Raising pie, Miss Carol. Mm-mm. Bless your soul. Mm-hmm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. All right. Um, let's see. What about when people be renting scooters on vacation with no helmet?

SPEAKER_02 39:52

That's your business. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

That's okay. That's your business. Okay. But okay now. It's okay though. But that's what you say. To each its own.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

To each its own.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Mm-hmm. All right, um, two more.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Um, what was the one? When, okay. In a relationship, you have an argument and one of the uh individuals start cleaning aggressively during the argument.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? I'm just saying, it's a oh, okay. Okay, that's okay. That must be their little coping strategy. They're trying to feel better. Let out some aggression on the bike. Slamming things. My mom used to do that. Yeah, so every Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

All right. Um, what about when somebody says, do whatever you want? And it, you know, you think about a couple relationships, and they say, you know what? Do whatever you want.

unknown 40:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

Is that an okay, or is that do whatever you want? But okay now. I think that's what that is.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Uh okay now.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

That's what I think.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

You sure you want me to do everything I want? I don't want to hear nothing what I do.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

And then that's why she's saying, do everything you want. Okay now. Do it. You do the wrong thing. You have a props.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

Well, you told me to do it.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

Okay. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

See? Watch. You're gonna be outside. Okay. You and Miss Married, or whoever the lady's name was with from um that left her kids. I'm gonna go find her and you're gonna be with her.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

That's alright. She might be sitting on uh some millions.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

She's a runner though. Alright, the last one. Uh somebody use your toothbrush, but they said just one time.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Do we got you wanna die? Write that on this board. You dead. Put that on there. You dead. You dead. Okay. Because that's nasty. And I'm be extra mad if you tell me not already used it.

SPEAKER_01 42:03

Now you're real dead. What about this one? I mean, this is probably far-fetched from anybody we've, you know, it's just anyone. But it's I'm just gonna say that. Dealing with couples. They watch a new episode of a show you both started together without you.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

Okay. Because there are some people who don't like to binge, and they want to watch one show this week and watch it another week and watch it another week and watch it another week. Or sometimes they just stop all the blue. And then we in a whole new year, never finish the series.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Because somebody already cheated during the series, and I said, Okay, oh, you know, and you want to keep going, go ahead and watch it all yourself.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

So that's why I just move along and move on.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

Can't be stuck the show on the sofa watching a whole series. Oh, I can. I know you can. That's why you I can't do it. Well, that's why I probably split it up.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Well, he don't even finish them.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

Because you go forward. And then I'm not finna finish them. The conversation's not even there no more.

SPEAKER_02 43:18

Two each song.

unknown 43:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:21

You know. It's kind of like when I send you a a social media post. I say, ooh, watch it. Oh, I already seen that one. Oh, do you see that? Yeah. Oh yeah, I saw that one. Okay. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

Alright, that was okay. Okay now.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

Okay, okay now.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

Give me this thing. We're gonna put her on the bench, ladies and gentlemen. So, uh Miss Lacrecia. Um, we can either go to like get on up out of here, go to Sideyeye, or I can tell.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

How long have we been on here?

SPEAKER_01 44:03

I don't know. Oh. Okay. I was reading this thing. There's a new terminology that's out there. You know the helicopter parent. And see what you say. Think about this. You know what a helicopter parent is?

SPEAKER_02 44:17

You sent that to me. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

So what do you think about that? So the new word is lawnmower parent. Tell them what lawnmower parent is.

SPEAKER_02 44:24

Lawnmower parent is a parent that fixes everything for their child. They don't experience before. So they don't experience any challenges because everything is already done and laid out for them. So then as they get older, they don't know how to do for themselves. They struggle when things get challenging, which means that when things get challenging, they don't have a bit of resilience. They quit because they're so used to things being made easy.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

No problem solving for them.

Missing Mom Found After 24 Years;

SPEAKER_02 44:56

No problem solving skills. And so I find that a lot with parents today, we want to make things because people don't want to see their child struggle. They feel like when a lot of it goes back to when they were younger and how challenging things were. And they don't want their child to have to feel those things. However, all those things are a part of growing and learning and discovery and just knowing how to function in this world.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

Yeah. Now they'd be like, you failed me. They also said some people may be familiar with the term. It's the same uh meaning, but they may call it uh snowblower parent.

SPEAKER_02 46:01

You know, because how they go out there and, you know, oh blow the snow and do the things for a clear forum.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

As opposed to just stepping in it, you know, and knowing that it's okay.

SPEAKER_02 46:09

Or go shovel at your damn cell.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

Yeah. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Even like for avid, like they don't learn how to advocate for themselves, so they're scared to go talk to people. It reminds me of that one thing where that parent, their child is in college, graduated, had an interview at a corporate job, and the mom goes on the interview and she's like wanted to actually go into the interview with them. And they're like, Why? Who is that?

SPEAKER_01 46:35

But the child wanted them too, right? Wanted them there too.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

Because it was used to having that crutch. That crutch there. So I would think that that would be like Lalan Moore.

SPEAKER_01 46:45

So do you think that society has a role in playing in that too? You mentioned you said because parents uh don't want them to struggle, and sometimes parents are not patient. They're here, let me just do it.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

I'll just do it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:58

And and and I think, and what I'm saying about society is, you know, now everything is quick. So, you know, of course, with advancement comes the easy way, easier way. You know, just like now we don't have to walk everywhere because we can take a train, we can catch Uber ride, we can drive ourselves because of cars. Um, but uh we don't have to warm our food up in the oven anymore. We got a microwave.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:24

You know? Um, so I think society also has played its part um with everything being right now, right now, right now, is that like you said, we don't it's not necessarily we don't want to see our kids struggle. It's like, let me just show them how to do it right now. Or let me just do it for you right now.

SPEAKER_02 47:43

I think some of it is that some of it is they don't want to see them struggle. Um I also think the way that some school settings are set up where the credit recovery um that so does not prepare them for college because there is no such thing as credit recovery in college. When that due date is due, it's due.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

And if you don't turn it in, you fail.

SPEAKER_01 48:09

It's credit retake out of your own pocket.

SPEAKER_02 48:12

Out of your own pocket, thousands of dollars. Yeah, no retract. You have to pay again. So I I wish that they would not have the credit recovery. I mean, I feel like it's false data when we say it is uh as far as graduation rates. This is what the rate is when we did credit recovery. Um, because it's not really. I mean, the kids, sure enough, they did go back and do the work. However, it it's not gonna match to me or not match, but it's not truly indicative of what they're capable of. Capable of, yes.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

Yeah, it's like playing a game, and you see the team that won off the scoreboard, you see the team that lost, but you don't see the fact that the referees cheated for the other team. You know what I mean? You don't see who cheated. Yeah, you just see a one and a loss. And so the same thing with districts and schools is you see the graduation rate increase, you see failure rate decrease, but you don't we don't mention the other stuff because that's not a criteria when it comes to ranking.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

Yeah, you know. And that to me is not uh an intervention that helps them to change. For some of them, it's just they just know, oh, I can just do it and I'll and I'll get the credit later.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

Um it almost rewards their bad habit.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

Yeah, it does. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 49:32

It nurtures it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Yeah, for yeah, and maybe it works for some. Um, but I feel like the vast majority um is not preparing them for what they would experience at the collegiate level if they are going to the collegiate level. Um, yeah, that that is Yeah. It's not and then the parents that um also the parents, this is also I feel like the lawnmower. The parents that when their child is wrong, they will still call and cuss and fuss and make the wrong on the teacher side when it is clear evidence. Sometimes a video will show and they still will try to go and fix and maneuver that thing for their child.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

We had a situation like that this week.

SPEAKER_02 50:26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 50:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just just, you know, that that piece. They they have to feel failure. Failure is what um how you grow and learn. Um, and it doesn't mean that you don't still support them, but you don't do it for them.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Yeah, you have to teach them how to be self-sufficient.

SPEAKER_02 50:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:51

You know, um, the best thing that a parent can do is teach your child how to live on this world when you're gone.

SPEAKER_02 50:56

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 50:57

Well at whatever age.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Yeah, because you never know when you're gone. I'm telling you, nowadays it's just really like You never know. You never know. So you want them to be, yeah, self-sufficient when you're when you're gone.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

And then and I don't like to say, like you you said that uh parents they don't want them to struggle. Um I mean, that's true, but uh, you know, parents need to understand it's not really a struggle. Like we say, it's a discovery.

SPEAKER_02 51:24

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 51:25

Just because I'm like what I'm doing a puzzle, yes, it's I don't have the perfect piece right now. But that's learning because when I try to put that piece of puzzle, that piece into that section and it doesn't fit, well, I find a section that fit, but I also know by the wrong piece that there is a right spot for it. So when that spot comes, I know exactly which one to use. And when you're helping all those, your your kids all the time, that wrong choice is never finding a right spot. You know what I mean? And so sometimes we have to let the let them have some kind of discovery. You have to, even if they do fail, you have to encourage them to say, okay, it didn't pan out for you this time. Well, let's see what we can do the next time. You can't just say, okay, well, it failed. Now let me take control. Let me take the reins, my boy, and do it.

SPEAKER_02 52:20

Yeah, and part of it is just this whole um social media, public um picture of excellence of of this unrealistic life. You can't go on and say your child's on honor roll, or you can't go on and brag about your child, this and that. And so people want to be be able to have those opportunities to do that. And so sometimes it's by any means necessary to be able to to to be able to have that post or that be able to talk about your child in that way, even if you were the one who did all their online work that semester or projects, right? You you feel like nobody know, but anywho, we gonna brag about it.

SPEAKER_04 53:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

So that that sort of thing. And then it all comes out in the wash. So I would prefer for my child to be able to do that task on their own, be able to um be self-sufficient, go out and do the things they need to do in the world, because ultimately, I mean, the thing is that we all have the idea that we want our children to be successful. That's what all parents want. Right. And some just don't know how to do that appropriately. And so we struggle with um getting in the way of that because we don't want to see our child suffer. We want everybody to think that we got the best thing going with our children.

SPEAKER_00 53:58

Yeah, it's all perfect.

SPEAKER_02 53:59

Mm-hmm. And then that ultimately isn't success, it's really a facade. But it's a facade of success.

SPEAKER_01 54:05

It's too much information out or too much information available to you nowadays to say you don't know anything to do. You know, you can Google it, you can chat it, you can do whatever, um, and try some things, but you just can't say, I don't know what to do. You know, I mean, you of course people say we all say it.

SPEAKER_04 54:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:31

But remember that the world, you have the world at your fingertips. Like if you say, Well, I don't have anybody in my family that lives a positive lifestyle. I never knew marriage a positive marriage. I don't know what a positive marriage looked like. You could type it up and say, What are some examples of great marriage? What are some examples of great qualities in a significant other? What are some of parenting strategies to do with a kid that acts like X, Y, Z?

SPEAKER_02 54:56

You can get all that information. Yes. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 54:58

There's no and so the kids nowadays, they want, they want you to be a helicopter, I mean a lawnmower teacher. You know, like in math, those kids, they just want like the ones I have to help. So I'm taking notes. And so some of them just wait. Like a little girl today, she was just, she came in, just put her head down. And I was trying to get her attention. I was like, hey, you got it, we're taking notes. This is new. She didn't get up. And I tapped on her shoulder and I said, you know what? I ain't gonna touch it. Because the last thing, if you do it too many, get your hands off me. And I you know, I'm trying to say, you are you touching them, kids, none of that stuff. So I got all the notes, all the stuff. So she gets up and she tries to grab my notepaper while I was helping this kid. And I said, Oh, give me that. She said, I need, I need to know. I said, No, I'll I'll help you. You're not just gonna copy. Let me copy. I said, No, I'm not gonna let you copy it.

SPEAKER_02 55:49

Why did she copy it when it was happening?

SPEAKER_01 55:51

Because she still had her head down. She wouldn't pick her head up. And so, and uh because the teacher came over and said, I said, she's in the mood. I said, just let her have her time. When she's ready to come out of it and wake up, she will. When she needs to get the notes, I said, I know. I asked her to. I said, you know, because you can't write them up. You can't classroom management.

SPEAKER_03 56:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:10

So I turned my parent hat on. And so then she was kind of she was kind of upset. And then I wasn't paying her no attention because I was helping this kid who had his notes. And then he had them written. I said, okay, this step, does my step match yours? Oh, I forgot to change the sign. I forgot to do this. I said, okay. And she was like this. So then she said, okay, show me how to do this. And so all I had time was for one more. She said, let's do some more. I said, it's time to go.

SPEAKER_04 56:37

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 56:37

I said, plus, I said, I'm not finna show you how to do all this when I gotta check his work. You should have been with us. I said, well, you had to get it on Monday. I mean, well, Tuesday, because we are off on Monday. And little things like that where they just want to copy each other's work. And a lot of, you know, some teachers are like, here, just give it to him, here, just do it. No.

SPEAKER_02 56:57

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 56:58

But I understand why they want to do it because if they're the teacher of the city.

SPEAKER_02 57:02

They don't want to deal with the parent.

SPEAKER_01 57:03

They don't want to deal with a parent and they don't want to have a low high fare rate.

SPEAKER_02 57:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:07

You know what I mean? Yeah. So, like we said, it's that, it's that the padding the stats, what we call it in sports. You know, people are patting their stats, meaning that they're not true.

SPEAKER_02 57:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:16

So I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 57:18

Just don't be a lawnmower parent.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

Or a helicopter parent or a snowblower.

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Or a helicopter or a snowblower. Parenting, I agree, is one of the hardest jobs in the whole wide world when you're trying to be a good parent. It's not easy. There is no one right way to no days off. There are no days, hours, minutes off. Maybe when they sleep. But um, there aren't any. Um and so it is challenging, but just know that you aren't by yourself in the challenge.

SPEAKER_01 57:54

There's no perfect blueprint. Like you say, follow this to the T and you will be an amazing parent. Oh no. No. Anytime you're dealing with another human being that has the capacity to think and function on their own, you can't control that.

SPEAKER_02 58:11

No. So you just do the best you can, but the one thing is that we know the right things to do.

SPEAKER_03 58:17

Right.

Game: Okay Or Okay Now;

SPEAKER_02 58:18

And so we don't do what's most convenient for us, but we do what we need to do. I always say on the front end, so you don't have to do as much on the back end.

SPEAKER_03 58:28

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

Um, because the whole idea um is for your child to be successful and to be able to take care of themselves all on their own one day.

SPEAKER_01 58:42

Or to be able to afford to put you in a nursing home.

SPEAKER_02 58:45

In a nursing home or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 58:46

A good one.

SPEAKER_02 58:47

Yeah. So that's that's that's what you want. So make sure you do what you need to do so that they get to that spot.

SPEAKER_01 58:55

Speaking of lawnmowers, yeah. I need to get me a lawnmower.

SPEAKER_02 58:58

Ciao, you've been talking about it. Get it together, figure it out. Go and look.

SPEAKER_01 59:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 59:05

So next time you say, we need to get some stuff for it inside the house.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

I'm saying, uh, child, figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 59:11

I sure will.

SPEAKER_01 59:12

And you will be so upset. You know that too.

unknown 59:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:17

Anyway, side eye.

SPEAKER_01 59:19

Side eye. My side eye of the week has been my um, not really a side, but yes, my Jeep. So I had to get my radiator fixed. I thought it was just gonna be like a hose coming from my um my coolant reservoir. But I I got up under there and I was like, mm, I don't feel a a leak, and I put some more in there. I like when it was dry, I rubbed up under it, tried to dry it off, and when I poured it, I didn't feel a leak there. So I was like, where is it coming from? So after I drove it, you know, it went in through the radio. So it was like when it's cooling, trying to go back in, that's where it was coming from. So the it was, the guy says a big old hole in there. So that stuck me back, and um, I gotta order uh a panel for my the door from Q Money Mansider, I gotta order there. I thought it was gonna be a little easier than what it is. It's not hard, but just a little tedious. And I gotta order something from Amazon, then I gotta order something from eBay. So I'll do that this weekend too.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:25

Um Don't forget to send Khari stuff back.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:27

Yeah, I I I'm waiting on the return label. Okay. Because it said once I put it in motion, it said return label will be sent to you. And so um I'm gonna check again tomorrow. I'm gonna chat chat with them on um eBay.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:41

Okay. Um probably emailed. Did it email it to me?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

No, I looked. I didn't see it. Yeah. So um, but you know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:48

On your eBay account?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:50

I looked on my eBay account and through my regular email, but I wonder if I ever signed up on another email.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:58

So I'm gonna look on my other one that I normally look. Now that I just thinking about that. Um What else? What is that? Oh, and the other side, I part of the side, so I'm I'm like real cross-eyed today. Is the hours that they expect internships to work. So they're not like for professionals. You know what I mean? And even the the people in my class, we've chatted about that, they was like, how do they expect us to get these hours when we are most people in these online classes are professionals. You know, um, I understand, yes, that may be the only time to uh practice codes or I mean or open or whatever, but there should be something else. Because if not, you're gonna start losing people who can who, you know, because people gotta work. And they won't be able to get those times off. Or start offering paid internships because those are rare to find a paid internship. You know, then people will be able to work part-time if they don't have an actual four-time job. Like myself, I can't do it. And there's a few educators in the business, we can't do it. So we're trying to figure out what we can do. So I'm praying I got an interview on Thur Tuesday. I'm praying that I can. And they they're they're like a a full residence place. So I'm hoping I can do that. Then I gotta buy me some scrubs. You know I gotta be the part.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:20

Uh that's not the part.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:22

Yeah, when you at the at the place like that, everybody they had pictures on it had screws.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:25

Oh, did they? Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:29

So that's my side eye. What's your side eye?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:33

I'm side eye Lamar Odom.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:37

Because I didn't I forgot to write that on our thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:40

Because he went on somewhere talking about he loved drugs. You don't love drugs. I love drugs. Yon love drugs.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

What's wrong with you? Hey, hey, hey, I love drugs. You don't love drugs. What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:03

I can't believe that fool said that. I guess he really do love them, but goodness gracious. Yeah, he said that show never came out of his mouth. So I'm like, I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:14

I loved it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:14

I loved it. I loved all of them. Crack, cocaine, heroin, pills.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:19

When he went to the ranch, right when he signed his divorce paper, did you see that clip?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:23

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:24

He said, because you know he had gone to that ring. Remember we used to watch that show about the something Valley Ranch or whatever it was, like the prostitutes or stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:31

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:32

So he went there. He said the day he signed his divorce papers, he went there. He said it was like so many thousands of dollars, like maybe 30 grand. And he had one drink. He said he sat down on the bed, and he said, next thing you know, he woke up three days later. That's all he remembered. He said, I remember having my drink. I put it on the nightstand by the bed, and I'm waking up, it's three days later.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:57

Mm-mm-mm. Yeah, that's my side eye to him. I'ma need you not to love drugs.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:04

No, ma'am. Leave them, no, sir. Leave them things alone.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:07

I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

Yeah, I and it's because he keeps bouncing back and coming back and squandering, you know, because he was on with the Kardashians, no more money. He could have done squandered that opportunity. So I don't know, man. But, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:20

I mean, I know addiction is a real thing. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:22

That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

And they always say what uh once an addict, always an addict.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:26

Always an addict, right.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:27

So um I guess at this point he said, listen, I'm just gonna tell y'all.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:31

That's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:32

I love it. So to me, when you say that, I mean, that's Yeah, don't try to get me off of this. No.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:38

This is me.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

This me. I love drugs.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:42

You don't love drugs. What's wrong with you? Nights like this. I wish. That's what he was. Yeah. All right, um, what are you grateful for? Well, go ahead. I'm not Oh, I'm grateful for the same thing that I was kind of ticked off. I was ungrateful, not ungrateful, but I was side of my Jeep tripping. But I'm grateful that I do have the Jeep because I would, you know, we turned in the Tesla. And so being able to not have to go and buy a whole nother vehicle. You know, I have my my baby to be able to still, you know, stack some money so that we can, you know, do some things that we got planned. Um, some big things we're trying to do. And just be able to, you know, maneuver, man. Uh I do enjoy being Ubered around with you. 'Cause it's cool to, you know, to ride to work with you. Um but you know, um that's what I'm grateful for. Grateful for uh money to be able to pay for those things. Cause you know, it just seemed like Kahari's car, boom. Uh my car, everything hit, but money

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

Was fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

Was fine. Right. And that's how God is. It's always timing. Like we might say, ooh, y'all be tight this month. And if if if our car would have broke down on them tight this month's time, it wouldn't have been fixed. Then all of a sudden it's like, oh, we real good now. And then so shout out to the man up above. Well, he everywhere, so where you at right now, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:21

Right here. Hey Lord.

unknown 1:06:25

All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:26

She owned drugs. You ain't on drugs. What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:32

Um, I'm grateful for I would say my very, I would say inquisitive, uh driven son who said, who's who also had issues with his car. We remember we talked about the battery thing. Then his uh his air conditioner uh motor stopped blowing or working. And he says, Ma, please, I know I can fix it. I looked it up. I saw how you can fix it. I saw how much the part cost. I was like, I don't know about that, Kimai. I don't know about choosing your own car. You're gonna mess up something else. Then we're gonna be spending a lot of money. He says, please just let me get a chance to do it. And so he checked his uh spark plugs or whatever, those were fine. And I said we fuses, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we told him, go on and try, go on do it. If you say you can do it, do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:28

Do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:29

He bought his new air conditioning motor for$50. Ordered it online, it was delivered to him, and sure enough, that brilliant young man did it himself for fifty dollars.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:47

Got that from his daddy.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:51

So um, yeah, I'm really impressed because Cariscar also needed the same thing. It uh it wasn't fifty dollars. It wasn't fifty dollars. It wasn't fifty dollars. So I'm just grateful that you know he was like, I can do this. And I think what also made him more successful because he likes to also prove us wrong um when he feels like he can do something. And uh yeah, so he he did what he needed to do, and he said everything else is working fine.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:21

Um after his repairs. So yeah, I'm grateful that you know he said I'ma do it, and he did it.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:27

So shout out to Mani. Yeah, doing his thing. All right, so what are you looking forward to?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:34

Well, I will say um I am looking forward to let's see, tomorrow after tomorrow evening we're gonna um have a dinner date. It was a long, emotional, yeah, very emotional, uh busy work week. Um, and so I just want to have a little dinner date, something for us to do. So I'm looking forward to that. I'm not sure where we're gonna go, but we're I'm not sure either yet. Yeah, so I'm a we'll we'll know by tomorrow evening.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:10

Um we'll know by the time we put a fork in the mouth.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:13

Right. So we're gonna do that tomorrow. So I'm looking forward to that. And then I'm also looking forward to Sunday of Waking Up when my body says, Wake up, girl. And um, yeah, I'm just leaving Sunday as a day to um get re-energized um to do to to get back at it again. So yeah, I'm gonna be leaving Sunday for just that. It's gonna be my Sunday. This Sunday is gonna be very similar to my Sunday last Sunday. I enjoyed my Sunday last Sunday. So I'm going to try to.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:52

You stayed in bed a long time.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:53

I did.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:54

And I was up, I did everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:56

Yeah. Uh I I just, yeah, I needed it, and I feel like I need it again.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:02

So yeah. So anywho, I'm looking forward to that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:05

I'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:06

All right. What you looking forward to?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:12

Um, I'm looking forward to uh tomorrow, I guess. I'm looking forward to my getting my truck back. My Jeep back. Um because I got I told them to put some headlights in there too.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:27

So uh being able to see. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:31

Does your Jeep have medicine in the headlights too?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:34

They're getting the medicine in there, right? They getting their prescription feel. They getting their prescription feel. So uh hopefully I'll be able to see better at night. Um looking forward to trying to fix my door lock thing so I can get her back in tip top shape. Um and then I'm looking forward to um is the next weekend. I had that uh challenge mania.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:01

It's on a Sunday or something. Yeah, it's on a Sunday. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:03

And but on Saturday I have to do I have to um be a guest on another podcast.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:08

I got a hair appointment next Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:10

So uh oh, so we'll both be in Atlanta every day.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:14

Yeah, okay. Um, so that's what I'm looking forward to.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

Yeah. One other thing I want to say that I'm grateful for, um, even though I'm always helping, I'm working, working, working, working. I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to do therapeutic w work um with clients that are people of color. Uh most of my all of mine are. And it's just so good to see um getting what we need for our mental wellness.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:47

Breaking that stigma.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:48

Yeah, and parents, like parents um have teenagers and their parents making sure their babies get what they need and bringing them every week. And so um, yeah, so um I am grateful that I get the opportunity to do that, and I've created a safe space for them to to do the work um on their mental wellness. So although it is work and I do it after my real job, I say. Um, but um yeah, I'm grateful to have the opportunity um to help them, and I'm just grateful that they, you know, trust me to help them. So, anyways, I'm grateful for that.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:29

Good job. Gratefulness. Well, on that note, ladies and gentlemen, yeah. We're gonna get out of here so that Cree can get her work done.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:39

And so that I can um get ready to go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:44

I'm not gonna be that long.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:46

Yeah. Maybe I'll water my plants a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:49

Don't overwater them. You know what you did last time.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:53

I know. You killed them. Yeah. But I think it was more so it was because of that uh Miracle Grove. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:59

But they have now they have a thing the leak.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:02

They could they don't Yeah, everything has um breathing holes in it. Okay. All of them have breathing holes. But I'm gonna get some um more pots to put them inside of.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:12

So um Home Depot has some good, like just different colors, like um beautiful pots. The price one, pricey ones are beautiful, but the other ones, these like the cheaper one. Maybe I just get one, two a month.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:24

Something like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:25

Nothing like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:26

Um, but you just take that what they're in now and just sit them inside ceramically.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:31

Yeah, get you some nicer ones.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:32

Yeah, so they look better.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:34

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're about to bounce.

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Bounce. Mole bounce to the ounce. Mole bounce. Oh, and also look at my shirt. Power in our vote since 1913. Delta Sigma Theta Soridity, but there is power in all of our votes. Do what you need to do.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:01

Yeah, do what you need to do. Uh, get out there. Early voting is now going on. Um, please do your research so that when you're at the um poll, you'll know exactly who you're voting for. Um, and make sure you take somebody to the polls with you, all that good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:20

Go to the right polls, have your IDs, don't give them any reason to turn you away.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:25

Yeah. And check out where you're supposed to go vote before you go that way, just in case they done switched it up on you.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:32

Just in case they done switch it up. Yeah. Um, but that's it.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:38

That's it.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:39

Uh, this is the we got one more day of Black History Month.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

And uh, I try to represent black. I wore my alpha shirt today. I wore ASU jersey, ASU shirt, um black-owned stuff, try to wear a little something like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:56

Good for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:57

Yeah. Black history month. Thank you. Money's black history. Well, it's his portrait he made with the the red, the black and the green. Sucker. But that ain't what they said. Um yeah.

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SPEAKER_01 1:15:21

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Because the Lord is watching.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:46

And some of y'all that didn't do it, didn't get no friends. That's probably why you didn't get that blessing you was looking for. Uh that's probably why that thing failed. I won't say. That's probably why that card was declined. Uh oh. That's probably why you stumped that big toe. Oh. That's probably why that person didn't go out on that date with you, they canceled.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:03

Uh-huh. That's why your chicken burned.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:05

Exactly. So that's probably why you dropped that last piece of food that you was getting ready to eat. Because you didn't do what we said. We said it was between you and the Lord. It still is. So to get it together. Get it together. Don't forget to like and subscribe and follow us on all social media platforms. Follow me, Keefla Hare, Kifla Delon Hair, on um TikTok, uh, Instagram. What is yours?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:30

Cree Hair. C-R-E.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:32

All right. On all platforms and the professionally known podcast. All right, guys. Thank you. And bye.

unknown 1:16:39

Peace.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:43

Ew, I wish somebody could go. No, I really like to get together.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:56

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